New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.

I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.